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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1923-06-01

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1923-06-01, page 01

Central Ohio's Onljf
Jeuohh Newspaper Reaching Every Home
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAp.Efl FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to Jlmerican
and
JeiDhh Ideals
VoUmie VI — No. 2
(•()l.DMlUjS.iO! 11(3, JUNE i, 1923
ANESTOFANTF SEMITIC KLANS
Jewish Editor Reviews Two
Years of Political Murder
in Germany
LOWENTHAL WRITES IN THE MENORAH JOURNAL
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.\ TluiriiiKiaii farmer sat ifc.^t to mc ill tliK thir<l-class carriage going from l"!rfiirt towards Berlin. After wc had e.Nliauslcd the Itidian.s and the Wild West, iiifallilile topics of interest to all classes of I'*iiropeahs, and after I had heard of the Verwandtc who lived in Newark, wc closed in on politics. It was the middle of last summer. The old man would talk only when the train was in noi.sy motion, and even then he low¬ ered his voice to impart the secret that he was journeying to the village where the two principals in thfc Rathenau mur¬ der had, the day before,' killed them¬ selves, in order to see the exact spot where they fell and, I could read in his tycs, to gloat. "Why did they murder Rathenau?" I asked. The farmer's re¬ sponse was immediate and simple: "Be¬ cause he was a Jew."
The RatheniiU Trial
The Rathenau trial illuminates in the heart of Germany's population a nest of semi-secret, sciiii-inilitavy organizations motivated, in great part, hy anti-Semit- i.sin: and obviously the question arises as to the number of the population sup- portiiig the attitude of these orgarii/.a- ¦ tions and the degree to which they share this attitude. Naturally a direct inquiry IS impossible; one cmnot expect every German citizen to fiU in a l)laiik asking liim if he is volkisch, if he wishes to exclude the Jews from the Government, and how far lie would go to carry out the wish. But the measure of support which the pop\ilation is giving these tiationalistic organizations can be rough-
- ly estimated from the strength they have shown. The trial itself furnishes one ground for the .estimate; It was con¬ ducted, as I have said, by a special court „ ^ci'tjatcd for the purpose of protecting
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liidignati'on aroused by the"murder, creat ed to deal with precisely the situation the murder presfented. The "Law to Protect the Republic," whicii came into being at the same critical time and whose enforcement was the primary duty of this special court, was directed chiefly against the existence of those Right or¬ ganizations that could be judged a men¬ ace to the state. Tlie Court and the Law were backed by presumably popular ap¬ proval. Nevertheless, not a single or¬ ganization implicated, as the trial re¬ vealed, in one degree or another with the murder of a minister of state, was or has been investigated. This assured¬ ly ineans power.
Power of Organizations
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They are strong enough not merely to
shield themselves from a law directed
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OFFICIALS BAR JEWS
FROM HEALTH RESORTS
AHENNA (J. T. -A.).—Resolutions declaring Jews as iiiadinisSiblc were adopted hy the municipalities of Spitz- aiiulonau and Krcm.sniuenster, two well- known Austrian health resorts. Appeals agaiirst this decision, whicii is in viola¬ tion of the constitution, have been lodged with the officials of the districts in which the resorts are situated. Fail¬ ing satisfaction in this quarter, Jewish leaders declare tliey will start proceed¬ ings in the higher courts against botli the nninicipalities and the district olTl- cials. ,
$800,000 Invested By Jewish National ^ Fund During 1922
87% of Total Spent for the Pur-
chase and Improvement
of Land
COLS. ANNUAL FLOWER
DAY TO BE JUNE IOTH
.NEW YORK, CJ. C. 5.)-Thc total expended in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund during the yc_ar 1982 reached Ll.lS.SlU or approximately .$71)1,- HiO, it is 'learned.
This amount compares very favorably with that spent in 1920 when the in¬ vestments of the National Fund totalled the highest figure for any one year since its foundation, namely, L1(>1,300.' The present sum was expended as follows:
For land purchases Lkl00,48:i,5G3; for land improvement LE3-1,901,4.34; afforestation and planting LE7,254,212; buildings LEo,29r>,952; loans LEC,9,'i7,- IIC. Total L'E1.>1,892,327.
Tlie sums spent on purchasing and improving, land are thus 87 per cent of the total as compared witl^.84 per cent in Iftil and 37 per cent'in 1920. This is' in accordance with , the policy of'the National Jewish Fund to cpn- 'tqntrate more and more on, land acquisi- tj^i 'and il3jfirmteKitiQiLjF<5"-"""i(''>!!atJi
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JUSTICE BRANDEIS LIKENS ZION
PIONEESS TO PILGRIM FATHERS
Palestine Development Council in Second Annual Conference De¬ cides to Establish Loslal Leagues with Dues Paying Members —To Rnl-'^e Million Dollars This Year
NliW YORK, Al:iy 28. — {Ou>- N. Y, Corrcsponden't). —More than VJOO,- 000 vvas niiscd by the Palestine Devcliip ment Council at the closing sessiotts of the second, annual conference lie'd at the Hotel Astor Sunday and tod.iy. The sum of half a million dollar.'' lias been spentiin building and other fjrtiis of enterprise during the past halfiycar in Palestine, it was announced, ar. 1 tlic Council proposes to add another 'half million of investment before the end of the year. The Council adopted resolu¬ tion authorizing the - establisl'iie"iit throughput the country of a net vork of local Palestine IJevelopmciit Le&';j;ues, an intensive campaign having beeli' au¬ thorized to establish branches of 'hcse Lcag;ucs throughout the United SUtcs.
"I have never, left a Zionist mC'-tinp; with more satisfaction with the work accomplished atid the prospects in s!?ht," Justice Brandeis said it the concltiding session. Justice Brandeis in partlr.ular referred to the cooperation of the Ceti¬ tral Conference of Reform Riibbis, which was represented at the conft'rVncc by .Rabbis Isaac Landman, Nathan'titcrn and Charles Levi. ,1'
The largest 'subscription at the cqlifer- ence came from Dr. Stephen S. jWi.se who pledged himself to personallyj^aise !i!50,000 for the Council. Emjinuel Hertz, df Washington Heights, bi'uther of the Chief Rabbi of the British Em¬ pire, pledged his congregation to taise $37,.:>00, suflicient for 15 houses t^ be erected in Palestine by the Council Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans,: and Rabbi Blau of New York, each ,^er- soiiallv subscribed $300. Providence, R. L, was pledged to raise $10,000 by Max Grant of that city. Allcntowft, Pa;, was pledged to the extent of $10,000,' Israel NessOn, Boston, subscribed' ',$10,000, Henry Friend, Chicago, $t,O0Oi F; J. Fahs, New York, if5,000, and Bdnilard Flexn'er and sister each sjibsCfHvr^ 4|,900
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NEW YORK (J. C. B.).—The "God of Vengeance," written by Sholom Ash, well-known Jewish playwright, and fro- ducedin English at the Apollo Theatre since last February was held to be an immoral play by Judge IJcIntyre at the General Sessions court yesterday.
Those found guilty are Harry Wein¬ berger, lawyer, who was making his debut in the theatrical T,vorld as pro¬ ducer of the play; Rudolph Scbildkraut, referred to frequently as "Germany's greatest living actor," who played the principal role, and Virginia McFadden, Esther Stockton, Marjorie Stewart, Mae Berland, Dorothee Nolan,. Lallian Taiz, Aledha Wise, Irwhi J. Adler, Sam Joffc, Morris Carnowsky and James Meighan, niembers of the cast.
Summing up for the defense, Mr. Weinberger held a Bible before the jury and said he defied Assistant District At¬ torney James Garret Wallace, to read aloud Chapter XVIII of the Book of Leviticus, Solomon's Son(j of Songs, the story of Sodom alid Gomorrah or the story of King David and Bathsheba. He also defied Mr. Wallace to read aloud Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" or "The Rape of Lucrcce." ¦
After the vcrdicf Judge Mclntyre said he felt is should prove a "wholesome' example." He said the time had come when "the drama must be purified." He declared he particularly resented refer¬ ences in the: play to the scrolls of the Torah, which he said had offended tnany Jews.
Judge Mclntyre allowed all defend¬ ants to be continued under the bail of $300 each until June 23, when they must appear for sentence.
'¦^ LE'lOjOOO was paid on ac¬ count of,the-}and purlhases in the Val¬ ley of Jezreel where most of the im¬ provement works were carried out. At a time when other Funds h^d run low and the condition of the .settlers \yas critical, the National Fund was able to employ hundreds of workmen on its Drainage schemes and Water Installation works. Had these essential works not been carried out the Emek colonies could never have recorded their present prog¬ ress, it is stated.
The Head Office of the Jewish Na¬ tional Fund, it is learned, views the future, with soiiie concern as it is now spending its reserve resources and its present income is not adequate to enable it to contijitie to discharge its great re¬ sponsibilities. A serious effort must be made, in the opinion of the Directors, to augment the revenue of the Jewish -Vational Fund.
Cols, Annual Flower Day
An effort will be made by Columbus Jevys to make the Tenth Annual Flower Day for the benefit of the Jewish Nation¬ al Fund, to be held here June 10, the greatest ever attempted. •
Abe Seff is chairman and David Dul¬ sky secretary of the coinmittee which is making all the arrangements for the day. The workers of former years will be called upon to volunteer their services, and new vvorkers will .be drafted into the organization which is necessary to canvass the city.
It is planned to have committees sta¬ tioned at prominent corners in the down town business district, as well as to have committees canvass the Jewish homes of the city.
The Hebrew School, 558 East Rich St.,, will be the principal, headquarters, and down town headquarters will be estab¬ lished to supply flowers for the down town committees.
Three prizes will be given away. One will go to the down town committee making the largest sales, one to the house-^to-house-canvass cominittee who brings in the greatest returns, and one to the young boy or gjirl who makes the best showing. Miss Edith N^chmano- vitz and Miss Bertha Dulsky constitute the prize committee.
The committee .on flowers includes Miss Nachmanovitz, Mr. Dave Dulisky and Mr. Dave Bronstein. Mr. Bronstein and iMr. Abe Yenkin are lining up a number of automobiles which will help distribute flowers. Mr. N. Savage an<J Miss Nachmanovitz are in charge of publicity for the flower sale.
Mrs. B. Tushbant, Mrs. Abe Scff, Mr. D. Schwartz, Mr. Robert Melhnan, and others also are working for the success of the project. AU Zionist organiza¬ tions will lie asked to help.
ment ''•Leagues throughout the coiMry provide that the leagues' shall be oi|- ganized on a dues paying basis. The resolutions provide that the "^ocal leagues shall fix their own membeiship dues, provided a per capita tax of not less than $3.00 per head isliall be sent
to the central oflicc in New York for it.-r administrative fund."
The Council went on record in favor "f the ustablishmcnt in the near future of an industrial b.-iiik as welt as an agri¬ cultural bank for Palestine. The func¬ tion of the industrial bank is to en¬ courage cooperative industrial enterprise in'¦Palestine, while the.agricultural bank is to foster cooperative agricultural en¬ terprise. It was also decided to create a fuiul which should care for the mak¬ ing o,f an economic survey of Palestine. Anotiier resolution put the Council on record as favoring the early establish¬ ment of a Pcniiy'Savings Bank for the people of Palestine.
'I he Palestine Building Loan and Sav¬ ings A.ssociation, it; was announced, was now erecting 120 homes in Palestine and had plans for the erection "of ,an ever increasing number." Another resolu¬ tion provides for tlie gathering at once of a total of "one million dollars neces¬ sary to. meet the immediate housing and credit needs of Palestine."
Professor Patrick Geddes, famous towM-planncr ad designer of the Hebrew University of Jerusaleni, addressed the conference and outlined a plan to c-stab- lish a Palestine insurance company, the receipts of which vvould be used, after the expense of the business was sub¬ tracted, to reafforest Palestine
"We are trying to build a nevv land," said Justice Brandeis. "We Americans, when we think of the building of a new land, at least those of us who haye been in Nevv England, think .ilways of the Pilgrim aFthers, vvhat they did, what their adventure was and what they builded. If they were likely to be dis¬ couraged, I should think tbey would be discouraged by the loss of at least half tbeir number bcfote the first year was over. Disease, death, trial left be¬ hind what in a very short time became one 'of thu most prosperotis regions on earth. But it was the spirit. And ^he ^pii:!SitA4>!&A*Si*j<'»5wQ' .•lf'iviitf/''<s-rfv>i?-S*'tf' spirit that we should show in going east. *
"I have heard it said by some," con¬ tinued Mr. Brandeis, " 'How can you expect success in so small a country?' To my mind, the smallness of the coun- {Conchided on page 7)
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Paula Schwartz and Pola Negri
By GERALD GINZBERG
Paula Schwartz, former clerk in Wertheim's store in Berlin, came to America in January.
Paula did not come over to take .a look at the big stores in Nevv York for the benefit of Wertheim's. Ncithv is she on a buying expedition. At the present rate of exchange on marks, Paula would have to empty all the cash registers in Wertheim's in.order to buy a dozen linen handkerchiefs here, writes Gerald Ginzberg in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Those who have met her in Berlin say she isn't particularly strong on the perpendicular pronoun, that she is the best actor of feminine persuasion that has ever faded out or faded in.
Other folks seem to think so, too. For example, Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, astute gentlemen directing Fa¬ mous Players, have given Paula a con¬ tract, whose pearly figures would almost permit her to buy.out Wertheim's, even including the silk stocking department. Associated First National Producers dis¬ covered Paula's Thespian ^merits after the American rights on her pictures had gone begging for many months. "Passion," produced here last year, was her famous Madame DuBarry picture, and this picture immediately brought her acclaim from everywhere. Then there was "Gypsy Love," "One Arabian Night,'' etc.—all of which is enough to state vvithout wasting any more iB-poirit type, that this former shop girl at Wertheim's is none other th^n Pola Negri, whose sensational rise is one of the most romantic romances of this roinantic business, where the good and bad die young and hard and quick.
Pola Negri is of course merely a translation of Paula Schwartz, who earned the munificent sum of fifteen marks a week as a clerk and whd is.npw making more than that a minute, Pola Negri is* a Jewess from Posen, ^nd Uie owes her astonishing success to Ernest Lubitch, also a Jew, and the outstanditig director of the film world, who disbov- ered her and broug:ht her to her prejient pre-eminent position
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ARABS BOAST $2,000,000
RAISED IN AMERICA
I JERUSALEM (J. T. A.).—The claim that American Christians have contrib¬ uted $2,000,000 for Christian-Arab insti¬ tutions in Palestine, is made by the Philistine, an 'Arab daily here. This huge fund is said to have been secured tlirough the efforts of Shibly Jemal, secretary of the Arab delegation to Lon¬ don, who is now in the United States. Hig mission, it js said, is to prevent the transfer of more land to Jevv.s, particu¬ larly what remains of the Jerusalem estate of the Greek Patriarchate, which the Palestine Land Development com¬ pany acquired two years ago.
Over 300 B'nai B*rith Members
Witness Initiation
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so Candidates Initiated into Zion
Lodge No. 62 I. O. B. B. with
Impressive Ceremony
JUBILEE MARKS CLIMAX OF EVENING'S PROGRAM
Clerking at Wertheim's didn't prevent Paula Schwartz from .dancing and singing and playing the violin. Perhaps she had read the late Elbert Hubbard and Dr. Frank Crane, for she. just kept at it, playing and singing and fiddling and clerking until she got a concert en.^ gagement and vvas able to punch the time clock at Wertheim's for the last time, for although her tour was a great success and she subsequently got'placed with the Imperial Ballet, the war broke out — and Pola Negri out of ai job, turned back' to Paula Schwartz and Wertheim's. ' That alone shows the stuff that was in her-^ she was. big enough to go back clerking. But she had her eyes on the movies arid finally secured.a job as an extra. .Then Ernest Lubitch discovered her and—-in the short space of six years she has becotne — vvell, we will leave it to a plebescite as to what she has become.
Like all movie stars, she has a hobby, hers happening to be dolls. She also enjoys, riding, dividing her time between her horse. Pasha, arid her automobile, Benz. She is also learning English and boasts, that she will be able to talk to American newspaper men within two months. Pola, it seems, is already look¬ ing forward to her American- inter¬ views, a point in which she is strikingly different from her American rivals, who, of course, will bend heaven and earth in order to keep themselves out of the papers. Of course I
There is another thing about her, people vvho have watched her work em¬ phasize. She is'in every sense'an artist. In her work and in her private life she has the finer instincts and the equi¬ librium which Americans particularly love to attribute to the heroines of their make-believe world. She is full of spirit and quick tO'speak her mind. But she is never unreasonable, never coarse, never spiteful. She. has poise, but not arrogance. In' her conversations with the photographers, with her maid, Emma, with the errand boy, it is ob¬ served that she is just the aame as she is in the copipany of the director.
Monday evening of this week for Zion Lodge No. <i2, Independent Order B'nai B'rith, vyill be marked up as a red letter . day pii its .calendar of achieve¬ ments. The initiation and jubilee held at the Southern Hotel Winter Garden that evening not only reflected on the great efforts Of the committee on ar¬ rangements to provide good food and entertainment, Imt in a tangible manner showed how thoroughly alive is the membcr.ship of the local lodge of the order. The crowd ta.xed the capacity of the large auditorium, and made difliCuIt tiie serving by the waiters, but the high spirits prevailing made light oi these dilficulties. Leo Yassenoff vvas chairman of the entertainment committee, and re¬ ceived able assistance fronrJulius Zeck¬ hauser, Abe 'Weinfeld, Henry Ilerscb and Ben Neustadt. .•
The initiation of the newly elected can¬ didates was conducted in a most inspiring manner by the initiatory team consisting of Dr. Louis Kt'thn, presi'^lent; Jack j\feyer.s, vice president; .\„ S. Weinfeld, •intiuitcnrY' j'miiis—¦-T/-v:ecrma'OTw ;~;<!hiiic-" ant monitor, and Leo Yassenoff, warden.
The following were initiated:
Robert Blank,' I. Bogroff, William Burnstein, Louis Brcner, Samuel Baker, A. H. Berliner, Edward Ber- zon, H. Center, Max Dworkin, J. Davis, M. Feldman, Jacob Feiner, B.
B. Friedman, Leo Eichel, Chas. Epp¬ stein, George Goodman, M. Morgan- roth, B. Miller, Sam Nendlowitz, Hy¬ man Minkin, Leopold Myers, L. H. Mendelson, Louis M. Piatt, Henry Piatt, Harry Schachet, Phil Stein, Harry Siegel, J. D. Siegel, Ben Schecter, M. .Strear, Abe Wolman, Marcus Wolf, Harry Zisenwine.
On closing the ceremonies of initia¬ tion, President Julius N. Zeckhauser, of Zion Lodge, addressed the nevv inem¬ bers and spoke in a language of Syllabled fire, and tharacterized the 15'nai B'rith as the right-arm of Judaism in Anierica, vvhereby the American people arc to he made to understand the Jew and Juda¬ ism. He made a brief review of vvhat the B'nai ¦ B'rith vvas doing throughout the country for the widows iind orphans, for. the sick and needy, for the educa¬ tion and Americanization of our im¬ migrant brethren, and' at all times pro¬ tecting and defending the Jevvish narne through the effective work of the Anti- defamation League.
Mr. Zeckhauser then presented four prizes to the winners in the recent mem¬ bership driye, the first prize going to the captain of the wiiming team, Mr. J.
C. Goodman, the second to .Morris Supran, third to Sam'l Blasberg, and fourth to L. Rosenthal.
Refreshments vvere later served to all members and the very fine evening's en¬ tertainment virhich followed consisted of southern syncopators and three box¬ ing "matches including the following champion boxers: Wiillie Kimm, Jakie Mellman, Battling Chink, Joe Kresge and Lou Palmer.
CAPTAIN PEYSEl DEMANDS XW.B. SPEND WAR CilS'
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Says ySelf-Appointed" Leaders
Have Given No Reckoning
of Huge Fund
H. A. ALEXANDER URGES
AGGRESSIVE JUDAISM
By MAX RHOADE (Our Washington Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, D. G. — SoiiietrUng in the nature of a sensation was caused here at the annual B'nai B'rith banquet, Monday night, April 22, by a bitter at¬ tack of Captain Julius Peyser, promi¬ nent in' local B'nai B'rith circles, against the leaders of. the Jewish Welfare Board in New York for their failure to-disburse the large sum of money in the organization's "war chCst,'! to meet relief and other pressing Jewish needs. Terming the Jewish. Welfare Board leaders as "tories" who were not chosen by the Jews of the- country to represent them, and who did not consult the Jevv¬ ish public for their wishes respecting the disposition of the tremendous sum in the "war chest," he demanded to know what was being done with the money and the plans for its future use.
No Accounting Made
"Where is this money being kept, and how is it invested?" Captain Peyser ve¬ hemently asked. 'He said as far as he knew no accountings of the fund had been made by the Jewish Welfare Board officials to American Jewry, and de¬ clared it "outrageous" that repeated campaigns were being made for Jewish funds vvhen the Jewish Welfare Board treasury was available, with such larger financial resources. The B'nai B'ritli should take it upon itself, in conjunction with other democratic organizations to depose these leaders, Captain -Peyser asserted, vvhom he termed "self- appointed." He also criticized the American Jewish Committee as "un¬ democratic," and lauded the B'nai B'rith for upholding the principle' of ,elcc4iv*s' leadership, as opposed to the^"tory" sys^'-; tern. PcTyspr ' is • presitjenl of a'welj-^^t known bank in tliifi. fl*v"i~.-, > ••¦' ¦ i'^'i-U
H. A.; Alexander, oi''Aflaiitai'(X president of district No. 5 of the order, which comprises all the southeastern states, was the honor guest at the banquet and made a great impression with his address, causing many of the local leaders to predict a great role for Alexander in American -Jewish affairs if he continues his interest in this field he only became active about two 3'ears ago. An American Jew by birth, of the second or third generation, he spoke whh unusual fearlessness of the present Jevvish situation in this country. He rebuked two previous speakers for the apologetic tone in whicii they spoke concerning the Jews. One of these, Frederic William Wile, a Jew, formerly a prominent European war correspond¬ ent and now a leading syndicate writer, had, in treating of anti-Semitic agitation in America, declared that to lessen this feeling it was necessary to be "Ameri¬ cans first, and Jews afterward," as the Jews were unduly emphasizing their re¬ ligious and racial distinction. This re¬ mark drew considerable applause from the older element of the membership, be¬ longing chiefly to the Reform wing.
Turning on Wile,, Alexander rebuked him for the remark, emphatically ex¬ claiming : "There is no conflict between American loyalty and Judaism!", and declared that the principles of the Torah .were the foundation of the American republic. He said that investigation of the anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith had revealed that the whole anti-Semitic agitation in the United States was fostered and fed by a group {Concluded on page 7.)
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RESENT VISIT TO
RABBI SONNENFELD
HOWELL ASTONISHED BY PALESTINE PROGRESS
JERUSALEM .(J. T. A.).—Resent¬ ment felt in Jewish circles over the visit Colonel Kisch paid to Rabbi Sonnen- feld, leader of the intransigeant ortho¬ doxy, found expression at the, meeting yesterday of the Vaad Leumi.
Dr. Ben-Zion Mosessohn questioned the Colonel, who is acting as the political representative in Palestine of the World Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency, about his visit, particularly as the Zionist emissary was accompanied by Prof. Israel deHaan, an avowed op¬ ponent of the Zionist Organization. The colonel replied that his visit was un¬ official and prompted by his personal de¬ sire to acquaint 'himself with all parts of the Jewish population.
JERUSALEM (J. T. A.).—J. Morton Howell, Anierican Ambassador and Consul General to Egypt, told newspa¬ permen here today he was agreeably as¬ tonished at the rapid development Pal¬ estine has made. He visited Palestine fifteen years agb, he said, and It was impossible for him to recognize it was the same country, owing to the remark¬ able progress that has been made since tliat time.
HISTORY OF THE
JEWS OF FRANKFORT
BERLIN (J. C. B.).—It is stated that Prof. J. Krakauer, known as the his¬ torian of FranJcfort Jewry, completed before his death his "History of the Jews of Frankfort." The manuscript is in the hands of the Board of Franlcfort Jevvish community, on whose commis-'^ sion it was written.. Publication will be comtnenced shortly. The volumes rep¬ resent the lifework of Prof, Krakauer.
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Central Ohio's Onljf
Jeuohh Newspaper Reaching Every Home
/¦¦^-^
A WEEKLY NEWSPAp.Efl FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to Jlmerican
and
JeiDhh Ideals
VoUmie VI — No. 2
(•()l.DMlUjS.iO! 11(3, JUNE i, 1923
ANESTOFANTF SEMITIC KLANS
Jewish Editor Reviews Two
Years of Political Murder
in Germany
LOWENTHAL WRITES IN THE MENORAH JOURNAL
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For land purchases Lkl00,48:i,5G3; for land improvement LE3-1,901,4.34; afforestation and planting LE7,254,212; buildings LEo,29r>,952; loans LEC,9,'i7,- IIC. Total L'E1.>1,892,327.
Tlie sums spent on purchasing and improving, land are thus 87 per cent of the total as compared witl^.84 per cent in Iftil and 37 per cent'in 1920. This is' in accordance with , the policy of'the National Jewish Fund to cpn- 'tqntrate more and more on, land acquisi- tj^i 'and il3jfirmteKitiQiLjF<5"-"""i(''>!!atJi
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
JUSTICE BRANDEIS LIKENS ZION
PIONEESS TO PILGRIM FATHERS
Palestine Development Council in Second Annual Conference De¬ cides to Establish Loslal Leagues with Dues Paying Members —To Rnl-'^e Million Dollars This Year
NliW YORK, Al:iy 28. — {Ou>- N. Y, Corrcsponden't). —More than VJOO,- 000 vvas niiscd by the Palestine Devcliip ment Council at the closing sessiotts of the second, annual conference lie'd at the Hotel Astor Sunday and tod.iy. The sum of half a million dollar.'' lias been spentiin building and other fjrtiis of enterprise during the past halfiycar in Palestine, it was announced, ar. 1 tlic Council proposes to add another 'half million of investment before the end of the year. The Council adopted resolu¬ tion authorizing the - establisl'iie"iit throughput the country of a net vork of local Palestine IJevelopmciit Le&';j;ues, an intensive campaign having beeli' au¬ thorized to establish branches of 'hcse Lcag;ucs throughout the United SUtcs.
"I have never, left a Zionist mC'-tinp; with more satisfaction with the work accomplished atid the prospects in s!?ht," Justice Brandeis said it the concltiding session. Justice Brandeis in partlr.ular referred to the cooperation of the Ceti¬ tral Conference of Reform Riibbis, which was represented at the conft'rVncc by .Rabbis Isaac Landman, Nathan'titcrn and Charles Levi. ,1'
The largest 'subscription at the cqlifer- ence came from Dr. Stephen S. jWi.se who pledged himself to personallyj^aise !i!50,000 for the Council. Emjinuel Hertz, df Washington Heights, bi'uther of the Chief Rabbi of the British Em¬ pire, pledged his congregation to taise $37,.:>00, suflicient for 15 houses t^ be erected in Palestine by the Council Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans,: and Rabbi Blau of New York, each ,^er- soiiallv subscribed $300. Providence, R. L, was pledged to raise $10,000 by Max Grant of that city. Allcntowft, Pa;, was pledged to the extent of $10,000,' Israel NessOn, Boston, subscribed' ',$10,000, Henry Friend, Chicago, $t,O0Oi F; J. Fahs, New York, if5,000, and Bdnilard Flexn'er and sister each sjibsCfHvr^ 4|,900
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GOD OF VENGEANCE PLAY IMMORAL; SCHILDKRAUT COMPANY CONVICTED
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"I have heard it said by some," con¬ tinued Mr. Brandeis, " 'How can you expect success in so small a country?' To my mind, the smallness of the coun- {Conchided on page 7)
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Paula Schwartz and Pola Negri
By GERALD GINZBERG
Paula Schwartz, former clerk in Wertheim's store in Berlin, came to America in January.
Paula did not come over to take .a look at the big stores in Nevv York for the benefit of Wertheim's. Ncithv is she on a buying expedition. At the present rate of exchange on marks, Paula would have to empty all the cash registers in Wertheim's in.order to buy a dozen linen handkerchiefs here, writes Gerald Ginzberg in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Those who have met her in Berlin say she isn't particularly strong on the perpendicular pronoun, that she is the best actor of feminine persuasion that has ever faded out or faded in.
Other folks seem to think so, too. For example, Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, astute gentlemen directing Fa¬ mous Players, have given Paula a con¬ tract, whose pearly figures would almost permit her to buy.out Wertheim's, even including the silk stocking department. Associated First National Producers dis¬ covered Paula's Thespian ^merits after the American rights on her pictures had gone begging for many months. "Passion," produced here last year, was her famous Madame DuBarry picture, and this picture immediately brought her acclaim from everywhere. Then there was "Gypsy Love," "One Arabian Night,'' etc.—all of which is enough to state vvithout wasting any more iB-poirit type, that this former shop girl at Wertheim's is none other th^n Pola Negri, whose sensational rise is one of the most romantic romances of this roinantic business, where the good and bad die young and hard and quick.
Pola Negri is of course merely a translation of Paula Schwartz, who earned the munificent sum of fifteen marks a week as a clerk and whd is.npw making more than that a minute, Pola Negri is* a Jewess from Posen, ^nd Uie owes her astonishing success to Ernest Lubitch, also a Jew, and the outstanditig director of the film world, who disbov- ered her and broug:ht her to her prejient pre-eminent position
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ARABS BOAST $2,000,000
RAISED IN AMERICA
I JERUSALEM (J. T. A.).—The claim that American Christians have contrib¬ uted $2,000,000 for Christian-Arab insti¬ tutions in Palestine, is made by the Philistine, an 'Arab daily here. This huge fund is said to have been secured tlirough the efforts of Shibly Jemal, secretary of the Arab delegation to Lon¬ don, who is now in the United States. Hig mission, it js said, is to prevent the transfer of more land to Jevv.s, particu¬ larly what remains of the Jerusalem estate of the Greek Patriarchate, which the Palestine Land Development com¬ pany acquired two years ago.
Over 300 B'nai B*rith Members
Witness Initiation
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so Candidates Initiated into Zion
Lodge No. 62 I. O. B. B. with
Impressive Ceremony
JUBILEE MARKS CLIMAX OF EVENING'S PROGRAM
Clerking at Wertheim's didn't prevent Paula Schwartz from .dancing and singing and playing the violin. Perhaps she had read the late Elbert Hubbard and Dr. Frank Crane, for she. just kept at it, playing and singing and fiddling and clerking until she got a concert en.^ gagement and vvas able to punch the time clock at Wertheim's for the last time, for although her tour was a great success and she subsequently got'placed with the Imperial Ballet, the war broke out — and Pola Negri out of ai job, turned back' to Paula Schwartz and Wertheim's. ' That alone shows the stuff that was in her-^ she was. big enough to go back clerking. But she had her eyes on the movies arid finally secured.a job as an extra. .Then Ernest Lubitch discovered her and—-in the short space of six years she has becotne — vvell, we will leave it to a plebescite as to what she has become.
Like all movie stars, she has a hobby, hers happening to be dolls. She also enjoys, riding, dividing her time between her horse. Pasha, arid her automobile, Benz. She is also learning English and boasts, that she will be able to talk to American newspaper men within two months. Pola, it seems, is already look¬ ing forward to her American- inter¬ views, a point in which she is strikingly different from her American rivals, who, of course, will bend heaven and earth in order to keep themselves out of the papers. Of course I
There is another thing about her, people vvho have watched her work em¬ phasize. She is'in every sense'an artist. In her work and in her private life she has the finer instincts and the equi¬ librium which Americans particularly love to attribute to the heroines of their make-believe world. She is full of spirit and quick tO'speak her mind. But she is never unreasonable, never coarse, never spiteful. She. has poise, but not arrogance. In' her conversations with the photographers, with her maid, Emma, with the errand boy, it is ob¬ served that she is just the aame as she is in the copipany of the director.
Monday evening of this week for Zion Lodge No. ••¦' ¦ i'^'i-U
H. A.; Alexander, oi''Aflaiitai'(X president of district No. 5 of the order, which comprises all the southeastern states, was the honor guest at the banquet and made a great impression with his address, causing many of the local leaders to predict a great role for Alexander in American -Jewish affairs if he continues his interest in this field he only became active about two 3'ears ago. An American Jew by birth, of the second or third generation, he spoke whh unusual fearlessness of the present Jevvish situation in this country. He rebuked two previous speakers for the apologetic tone in whicii they spoke concerning the Jews. One of these, Frederic William Wile, a Jew, formerly a prominent European war correspond¬ ent and now a leading syndicate writer, had, in treating of anti-Semitic agitation in America, declared that to lessen this feeling it was necessary to be "Ameri¬ cans first, and Jews afterward," as the Jews were unduly emphasizing their re¬ ligious and racial distinction. This re¬ mark drew considerable applause from the older element of the membership, be¬ longing chiefly to the Reform wing.
Turning on Wile,, Alexander rebuked him for the remark, emphatically ex¬ claiming : "There is no conflict between American loyalty and Judaism!", and declared that the principles of the Torah .were the foundation of the American republic. He said that investigation of the anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith had revealed that the whole anti-Semitic agitation in the United States was fostered and fed by a group {Concluded on page 7.)
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RESENT VISIT TO
RABBI SONNENFELD
HOWELL ASTONISHED BY PALESTINE PROGRESS
JERUSALEM .(J. T. A.).—Resent¬ ment felt in Jewish circles over the visit Colonel Kisch paid to Rabbi Sonnen- feld, leader of the intransigeant ortho¬ doxy, found expression at the, meeting yesterday of the Vaad Leumi.
Dr. Ben-Zion Mosessohn questioned the Colonel, who is acting as the political representative in Palestine of the World Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency, about his visit, particularly as the Zionist emissary was accompanied by Prof. Israel deHaan, an avowed op¬ ponent of the Zionist Organization. The colonel replied that his visit was un¬ official and prompted by his personal de¬ sire to acquaint 'himself with all parts of the Jewish population.
JERUSALEM (J. T. A.).—J. Morton Howell, Anierican Ambassador and Consul General to Egypt, told newspa¬ permen here today he was agreeably as¬ tonished at the rapid development Pal¬ estine has made. He visited Palestine fifteen years agb, he said, and It was impossible for him to recognize it was the same country, owing to the remark¬ able progress that has been made since tliat time.
HISTORY OF THE
JEWS OF FRANKFORT
BERLIN (J. C. B.).—It is stated that Prof. J. Krakauer, known as the his¬ torian of FranJcfort Jewry, completed before his death his "History of the Jews of Frankfort." The manuscript is in the hands of the Board of Franlcfort Jevvish community, on whose commis-'^ sion it was written.. Publication will be comtnenced shortly. The volumes rep¬ resent the lifework of Prof, Krakauer.
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